Rollulus rouloul (Scopoli, 1786)

Wilson, John-James, 2021, Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141 (1), pp. 39-49 : 44

2144 [512g]. Crested Partridge Rollulus rouloul (Scopoli, 1786)

Listedȱ byȱ Rafflesȱ (1822)ȱ asȱ ‘ Tetrao viridis, Gmel. [sic]’. The species was evidently a major source of taxonomic confusion (see Vigors 1829), with the male described as Columba cristata Pallas, 1764 , and the female as Perdix coronata Latham, 1790 . In 1825, Stanley matched the femaleȱspecimenȱgivenȱtoȱhimȱbyȱRafflesȱwithȱaȱmaleȱheȱhadȱobtainedȱearlierȱfromȱMelakaȱ (no. 1693 in the ‘General index’) and listed the specimen under Temminck’s (1815) genus as Crytonyx coronatus and the vernacular name ‘Green Partridge’. The male specimen is still at NML (accession number D512c). The species is listed as Crytonyx cristatus Vigors in Vigors’ catalogueȱ(Rafflesȱ1830).ȱ Theȱ skinȱ ofȱ Raffles’ȱ relaxedȱ mountȱ isȱ atȱ NMLȱ(accessionȱ numberȱ D 512g).